Could machines feel?
If so, would we as a race be willing to see them as equals?
Would the moral majority persecute them, hunt them and degrade them as they struggled for basic human rights?
Could a machine, struggling to understand emotional intelligence, fall in love with a human?
Could she love it back?

"Their plan is set and it is simple: hold out for as long as possible and try not to die."
In this, the final instalment in the Caecilius Rex saga, the young detective and his ally Kendra Nai return to her home base at Lachrymosa: the location that promises to shed light on the workings of the evil crime magnate The Face.

K.C. Finn’s acclaimed detective series is collected here for the very first time, telling the complete and unabridged story of detective Caecilius Rex: a young man with a dark past caught up in a world of murder and toxicity. This edition includes the novellas:
The Atomic Circus,
Counterclockwise,
The Face,
Lachrymosa